Monday, 7 January 2019

District Legal Seminar : Family Disputes on Succession of Properties & Will

A Legal Seminar Family
Disputes on Succession of Properties & Will was organized by the
District Team led by Chief Group Avenue Head Rtn.Virendra Widge and Avenue
Chair Rtn.Ashok Shetty (Convener) at Rotary
Service Centre, Juhu on Saturday, 5th January, 2019. Rotary Club of Bombay West were the Lead Host
Club of this district event.

Keynote Guest Speakers CA Akshay
Shah and Adv Vipul Shah – both considered to the expert on the subject with
warehouse of practical knowledge – made brilliant presentations to the 100+
participants, mainly from the neighborhood community and members of various
Rotary Clubs from District 3141.Thelucid and well-structured talk on a very
complicated though important subject which impacts every individual in the
society was suitably appreciated by the audience. This was followed by a very
active Q&A Session where several queries were posed by the participants to
the experts on the dais.

The Q&A
Session was moderated by Adv Rtn.Hiralal Suthar, member of Rotary Club of
Bombay West, who also summarized the learnings and gave his closing
remarks.Handouts on key provisions
related to a Will, Useful tips on preparation of a Will and highlights of Hindu
Succession Act, 1956 were distributed to the participants as takeaways.

Rtn.Ashok Shetty thanked both the
Guest Speakers for sharing their knowledge with the audience and hoped that the
free advice rendered by them would be followed and derive benefits from it.He also thanked the 8 (eight) co-host Clubs
viz. Rotary Club of Bombay, Bombay Airport, Bandra, Bandra BKC, Mumbai Juhu,
Greencity, Parleshwar & Iconic for supporting the event.Certificates of Appreciation were handed over
to the representatives from these co-host Clubs by Rtn.Virendra Widge.

Earlier, Rtn.Anand Gupta,
President – Rotary Club of Bombay West welcomed the gathering.PP Rtn.Aslam Merchant for Bombay West
proposed a formal vote of thanks.

The awesome feedback received
from the participants post the Seminar was indeed encouraging.